2 RAW files - merge into 1 then process RAW as 1 file

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Hi everyone,

I have a little dilemma that I hope is really easy to sort. Basically I have two photographs on white backgrounds of 2 people. I can easily stitch the two people together in jpegs and then resize accordingly.

But, I want to do some PP work on the files using their RAW formats. Is it possible for me to stitch the two RAW files together then do my PP work on the one whole file?

I hope the above made sense!
 
Why not just work on them seperately then convert to Jpeg and merge. Surely this gives the same outcome???

The only other thing I can think of is to open them as a smart object layers in photoshop. I have not tried with two separate pictures only one in two layers, but it may be possible.
 
First of all what imaging program are you using?

Raw files can only be saved by a camera, you can't save to raw from the computer. Why are you not considering the intermediate step of tiff? There is no compression and you can manipulate each pixel individually.
 
I'm using photoshop CS3. I suppose I could do them individually in RAW mode (using the same settings) then when I save them as jpeg's go back and stitch them together.
 
I was going to suggest smart objects as well, I use them with layer masking for landscape shots, but I don't know how well it would go with your images.
 
If you are using Photoshop CS3, then the best way to do it would be to process them both in ACR and open them as layers on the same image in Photoshop. Also save the PSD file if you need to get back to the layers.

JPEG is only really an output format, not one for editing, you should really be using TIFF or PSD files, they are bigger, but there is no loss of quality.
 
Craikeybaby said:
If you are using Photoshop CS3, then the best way to do it would be to process them both in ACR and open them as layers on the same image in Photoshop. Also save the PSD file if you need to get back to the layers.

JPEG is only really an output format, not one for editing, you should really be using TIFF or PSD files, they are bigger, but there is no loss of quality.
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I think that is the way! I know how to do that too. CS3 is so BIG!
 
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